REDCAR’S most famous triplets are about to embark on their first day at school.
Lewis, Lilly-Sue and Taylor-Jean Butters, all four, start reception at Greengates Primary next Tuesday.
Parents Sammie, 22, and David, 29, year-and-a-half-old-brother Alfie, and Ruby, five months, will wave them off.
The triplets first made headlines when they were born in Scunthorpe on July 24, 2004.
Sammie was whisked there due to a lack of incubators at the James Cook Hospital.
Last year they appeared on TV programme, the House of Tiny Tearaways.
Now they are preparing to start school and mum and dad say they have mixed feelings about the big day.
Sammie said: “They tried their school uniform on and I nearly cried. They looked so small. The girls are tiny, so we had to wash their new jumpers at a high temperature to try to shrink them to fit.
“We had to have their pinafores taken up as well.
It feels like yesterday when they were born and now they are off to school – before we know it they’ll be doing their GCSEs!”
The triplets will be in the same class and although they look alike and share a passion for painting, they have very different personalities.
Lewis is shy and loves jigsaws and can concentrate for long periods on a task. Taylor-Jean loves any type of sport and is often seen kicking a ball. Lilly-Sue loves nursery rhymes and playing with dolls.
David said: “We are so used to having them with us all day long that it will be strange when they go to school.”
But the kids aren’t the only ones getting on the learning ladder. Sammie starts her access to nursing course at Redcar College on September 15. She will be training as a nurse before becoming a midwife.
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